Farm-gate



(No Model.)

J. M. MOOSE.

FARM GATE. No. 334,797. Patented Ja'n 26, 1886.

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JASPER M. MOOSE, OF KNOXVILLE, IOWA.

FARM-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334:,797, dated January 26, 1856.

Application filed September 14, 1885.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER M. Moosn, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Knoxville,in the county of Marion and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Farm-Gate, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the hanging,slidin g, swinging, and raising and lowering of a gate; and my invention consists in the construction and combination of atriangularshaped frame, hinge-irons, auxiliary posts carrying wheels and hooks, and a gate,as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a side view showing the triangular-shaped frame, hinges, and auxiliary posts combined. Fig. 2 shows the hingeirons, a wheel, and hooks applied to one of the auxiliary posts. Fig. 3 is a top view of a sec-' tion of the triangular frame having a hingeiron fixed thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective View showing the triangular frame hinged to a fixed gate-post, and a gate suspended and balanced on the frame, as required for practical use.

A is the horizontal bar of my triangularshaped frame.

B is a vertical bar, about half as long as the bar A, and rigidly fixed to the rear end thereof to extend downward at right angles thereto.

0 is an inclined bar fixed to the front end of the bar A and the lower end of the bar 13. This frame is preferably made of hard wood, and the pieces joined together by means of mortises and tenons or in any suitable way, as required to produce a strong rigid frame.

D is the body portion of my hinge-iron, in the form of a fiat bar adapted to be bolted fast to the side and end of the triangular frame; and f is a horizontal extension at its rear end and top edge, and has an eye, f, adapted to admit a pint-1e projected vertically from a fixed support.

f is an open loop formed integral with the parts D and f, and adapted, in combination with the end of the triangular-shaped frame, to inclose one of my auxiliary posts. These hinge-sections are preferably made of malleable iron complete in one piece by casting in a mold. One of them is bolted to the side and Serial No. 177,103. (No model.)

5 top, and one to the same side and bottom of the rear end of the triangular frame.

G is an angle-iron rigidly fixed to the front end of the bar A by means of bolts. It is also preferably made of malleable iron, and has integral open loops f, to inclose one of the auxiliary posts.

H H are auxiliary posts of uniform size, made of hard wood and projected through the loopsf at the opposite ends of the triangular-shaped frame, and adj ustably connected therewith by means of series of notches 1 2 3 4, formed in the faces of the posts, and pawls K, pivoted to metal bearers K, fixed on top of the bar A, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

m are metal hooks, carrying wheels 12, fixed to the top ends of the posts H.

m are metal hooks fixed to the lower, portions of the same post-s H.

r 0" represent pintles projecting vertically from hinge-sections fixed to a gate-post that is set in the ground to supporta gate.

3 s represent a series of straight bars or boards in a'gate of common form. To suspend and operate such a gate, in combination with my triangular frame and auxiliary posts, I hang the frame to the fixed gate-post by letting the pintles r enterthe eyesf ofthe hingeirons. I then pass the lower ends of the posts H down through the open loops f equal distances from the top bar, A, and secure them suspended in a vertical and parallel position by placing the pawls K in corresponding notches in the series of notches formed in the faces of the posts. I next hang the gate upon the wheels a at the top portions of the posts H in such a manner that one of the bars 8 will be engaged by the hooks m, as clearly shown, and another of the barss by the hooks m, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. To open the gate thus suspended to allow a person or animal to pass, I slide it rearward relative to the triangular frame upon the wheels n. To allow vehicles to pass, I slide the gate far enough to bring the wheels n equal distances from the opposite ends of the gate to balance the gate, and then swing the gate and hinged triangular frame horizontally, as required, to bring the gate into a right-angled position to the fence. The triangular frame thusperforms the function of a crane in carrying the gate.

To raise or lower the gate, I simply move the auxiliary posts H up or down in their bearings f, and fasten them at the elevation desired by means of the pawls K and notches in the faces of the posts.

I claim as my invention 1. In a sliding and swinging gate,tbe hingeiron D, having an integral horizontal extension, f, provided with an eye, f, and an integral open loop, f in combination with a frame and an auxiliary post, to operate in the manner set forth.

2. The combination ofa frame having hinges at its rear end and fixed open loops at its opposite ends, a fixed gate-post, two auxiliary posts having wheels and hooks, and a gate, to

operate in the manner set forth, for the pur- 1 2 34 and carrying hooks m and m, arranged and combined with a sliding gate and a fixed gate-post, substantially as shown and described, to operate in the manner set forth.

JASPER. M. MOOSE.

Witnesses:

ALLEN HAMRIOK, SIMEoN D. OoURsoN. 

